Oh To Be A Small, Fat Frog

23 She/her, bisexual, actually autistic, Jewish-American. Main fandoms are MGS, OFMD, TOH, Amphibia, Deltarune, Arcane, WWDITS, and Pokémon https://linktr.ee/spaghettidoodle

[mynameisonionhaha]

susie becomes enamored with the wonderful and whimsical nature of a random elementary schooler

[ikarons]

bravely . i think aveline and isabela should primarily be fighting over who gets to do violence and against whom. and what actually counts as violence . instead of what being good at woman is like

[ikarons]

like. aveline becomes captain of the guard after having previously been a soldier married to a templar. her Life essentially is defined by sanctioned, culturally noble and respected violence against those perceived as Other, Deserving by the state she serves. child bride to pirate pipeline isabela (who is on the run because she took on her powerful boss to free slaves he would have profited from the sale of) has been the Other against whom it is Acceptable To Commit Violence (but who is not legally or morally permitted to retaliate) her whole life, and i think this has made her incredibly protective of her right to engage in violence of her own. to me this has always kind of been the heart of their conflict— ideas about who is respectable, who is Allowed, who gets to define what that even means. especially with the context that As captain of the guard, aveline quite actively reinforces her institution’s right to enact violence & the Taboo against the disenfranchised returning it; her guardsman sexually assaults an elven girl, and she not only protects him, but literally (accidentally.) starts a war over her right to prosecute the girl’s brothers for killing him in retaliation when She failed to deliver appropriate justice. ISABELA WAS SOLD AS A CHILD BRIDE. it’s such a gimme. that’s like the main thing that differentiates them and the main difference in their interests. literally how is this not the main thing they’re clashing about?

[unheardoracle]

Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest

Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people

dodge questions

answer indirectly

lie (badly)

change the subject

crack jokes to avoid serious answers

lie (convincingly)

say half of what they mean

tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying

If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.

Subtext is where tension lives.

[archi-pelago]

mettatenna cool down doodle

[julesdrawz]

Tangela

[t00thpasteface]

i can finally appreciate the codec calls but it's not enough. i need a prolonged, in-depth look into how snake is processing what he's seeing in ssbb, especially in subspace emissary. clearly he and otacon both adapted to the crossover weirdness with their usual flexibility but surely there was a very awkward and frightening period of adjustment

[dreari-daize]

You can’t tell me Frisk WOULDN’T have a field day trying to get these two together

(Audio: Game Grumps - Arin injures himself on some of the worst kitchen tools ever)

[deepfrieddeltarunememes]

[nikkiaart]

Redrew and updated my “the gang goes to New York” picture

[eartharchives]

Jurassic sea monster was smaller than once thought, but no less formidable

A new study has found that Liopleurodon reached just over 8 meters long, replacing decades of inflated size estimates with the most accurate reconstruction yet. Image credit: Megan Jacobs/University of Portsmouth

https://phys.org/news/2026-07-jurassic-sea-monster-smaller-thought.html

[a-book-of-creatures]

They shrunkodon the Liopleurodon

[tentavamp]

It’s a liopleurodon, Charlie! A smaller but no less formidable liopleurodon!

[sharklilly]

Art Fight Attack 1

[integrityflower]

[19spam97]

side b

[cedar-rayne]

✧ sturgeon ✧

sneak peak of a new sculpture coming to my shop! this is the underglaze painting before the clear glaze is applied.

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[zipsunz]

rule breakers

[klappersacks]

(via File Photo)

[mudwerks]

WTF are those obelisks on the right?…

[pricklylegs-deactivated20250727]

Tasty obelisk fries..

[memewhore]

“It’s digestible” has got to be the laziest goal I’ve ever seen achieved by a food product.

[gingerhaze]

“It’s digestible”

[rhea314]

“It’s digestible” is pertinent!! Okay, for those of you who haven’t researched Crisco for writing fic about gay sex in the mid-late 60s:

The first-edition of The Joy of Gay Sex, published in 1977, declared, “Vegetable shortening may be the best lubricant, since it is not only greasy but also digestible”[4] Such a statement perhaps gives new meaning to the companies boastful declarations that “Its digestible” and “Crisco has been making life in the kitchen more delicious for years.”  Similarly, in the 1978 sex manual The Advocate Guide to Gay Health, Crisco even earned an entry in the book’s index.  Discussions of the shortening’s use as an anal lubricant indicate its popularity, with statements such as: “The lubricant, typically the cultic Crisco, must be copious.”[5]  In fact, Crisco was so synonomus with gay sex that discos and bars around the world took on the name, such as Crisco Disco in New York City, which was one of the premiere clubs during the 1970s and early 1980s.  Other clubs or bathhouses, such as Club Z in Seattle, even featured murals with Crisco.  Thus, Crisco was conversely also one of many things that led to the formation of gay identities during the 20th century.

from this essay: http://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2007/web-content/Pages/drew2.html

The more you know! :D

[nianeyna]

I have learned a new thing today.

[soupwife]

Love this post for so many reasons but most especially because this is from all the way back in 2012 and and yet not a single blog in this thread is deactivated

[nianeyna]

I enjoy that not only does this have a link to an actual source, but the link still fucking works.

[dancinbutterfly]

but @rhea314 you didnt include a picture of the crisco disco! AND MY GOD THE DJ BOOTH WAS A GIANT CRISCO CAN!

Go dance and get fisted. Fucking iconic.

[mr-elementle]

Love the gay history, but i just wanna correct that the “it’s digestible” in the gay stuff was a reference to crisco’s tagline it had been using since 1911, the actual meaning of its digestible is because it’s main competition came from “enhanced” lards which were rendered pig fat mixed with non food thickeners that literally did not digest and caused people to basically just shit out pig cream, since crisco was veggie based the body digested it along with the food

[papapastoral]

And in case you were still wondering, @mudwerks.. Tuna Croquettes

[elf7knight]

This post is the opposite of net zero information. Not only did I learn several new facts about gay history but also we rounded our way back to the original question of the tag line and the mini obelisks.

It’s a net profit of information. 12/10 post